The British Essayists, Volume 6Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Pagina 85
... rhyme sake translated , And into pity turn'd my rage . ' By this means the soft notes that were adapted to pity in the Italian , fell upon the word rage in the English ; and the angry sounds that were turned to rage in the original ...
... rhyme sake translated , And into pity turn'd my rage . ' By this means the soft notes that were adapted to pity in the Italian , fell upon the word rage in the English ; and the angry sounds that were turned to rage in the original ...
Pagina 140
... rhyme , is unqualified for our society . To speak disrespectfully of any woman is expulsion from our gentle society . As we are at present all of us gownmen , instead of duelling when we are rivals , we drink together the health of our ...
... rhyme , is unqualified for our society . To speak disrespectfully of any woman is expulsion from our gentle society . As we are at present all of us gownmen , instead of duelling when we are rivals , we drink together the health of our ...
Pagina 178
... rhyming race . POPE . As a perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving en- tertainments . A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) strug- gling with ...
... rhyming race . POPE . As a perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving en- tertainments . A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) strug- gling with ...
Pagina 179
... rhyme and prose , that it seems wonderfully adapted to tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I see a play in rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a tragedy of hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The solecism ...
... rhyme and prose , that it seems wonderfully adapted to tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I see a play in rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a tragedy of hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The solecism ...
Pagina 183
... rhymes ; ' Tis he , who gives my breast a thousand pains , Can make me feel each passion that he feigns ; Enrage , compose , with more than magic art , With pity , and with terror , tear my heart ; And snatch me o'er the earth , or ...
... rhymes ; ' Tis he , who gives my breast a thousand pains , Can make me feel each passion that he feigns ; Enrage , compose , with more than magic art , With pity , and with terror , tear my heart ; And snatch me o'er the earth , or ...
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Pagina 52 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others...
Pagina xcviii - ... town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Pagina xci - HAvE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Pagina 114 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me...
Pagina xcviii - Tully, but not one case in the reports of our own courts. No one ever took him for a fool, but none, except his intimate friends, know he has a great deal of wit. This turn makes him at once both disinterested and agreeable; as few of his thoughts are drawn from business, they are most of them fit for conversation.
Pagina 1 - ... would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms; for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valour, and that...
Pagina 111 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Pagina 3 - With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures, in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never over-bearing, though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him ; nor ever too obsequious, from an habit of obeying men highly above him.
Pagina 194 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Pagina xcviii - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humorsome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.